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An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety The Book of Disquiet isShortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize, and with a new introduction by Yiyun Li, a darkly comic novel of class, the long shadow of war, and unrequited first love. Liverpool, 1950. Sixteen year old Stella is hired as assistant stage manager by a repertory theatre company and soon falls into a heady infatuation with the director, Meredith failing to notice how he shows not only no interest in her, but in any woman. When the celebrated actor OHara arrives